U.S. Forces Command Soldier and Noncommissioned of the Year Competition

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD (July 30, 2010) – Staff Sgt. Loren Gernandt, an engineer with the 20th Engineer Brigade, who is representing XVIII Airborne Corps at the U.S. Forces Command Soldier and Noncommissioned Officer of the Year Competition, pulls ahead of the other runners, during the Army Physical Fitness Test event here July 27. The four-day Noncommission Officer and Soldier of the Year competition pits eight Soldiers and eight NCOs against one another in order to determine the best of the best from active-component, National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers within FORSCOM, the Army's largest command.